I smell a RAT

It has gotten so bad that they can’t even add up with any
credibility the jobs they say were created by the stimulus package.

It is without a bit of irony that the agency created to
count the jobs is called the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.
The RAT board is tasked with counting where the jobs are, but even the liberal
(and very partisan) Democratic Rep. David Obey (Wis.) smells a rat when it
comes to their calculations.

Here is what Obey had to say about the wrong numbers coming
from the RAT board: “Credibility counts in government and stupid mistakes like
this undermine it. We’ve got too many serious problems in this country to let
that happen.

“Whether the numbers are good news or bad news, I want the
honest numbers and I want them now.”

Why is Obey embarrassed about the RAT calculations?

Well, here is one example. The RAT reported that 50 jobs
were created or saved when stimulus money went to pay for a cemetery’s $1,000
lawnmower.

According to ABC News, the RAT also claimed that jobs were
created in Arizona’s 15^th congressional district. The only problem
with that is that there are only eight congressional districts in Arizona:

Here’s a stimulus
success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs
have been saved or
created with just $761,420 in federal
stimulus spending. At least that’s what the website set up by the Obama administration to
track the $787 billion
stimulus says. There’s one problem,
though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only
eight districts. And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like
this in places that are incorrectly identified.

Late Monday, officials with the Recovery Board created to
track the stimulus spending, said the mistakes in crediting nonexistent
congressional districts were caused by human error. “We report what the
recipients submit to us,” said Ed Pound, Communications Director for the
Board.”

Sure they do. I smell a RAT. When David Obey says that the
Obama administration is losing credibility when it comes to jobs, you know that
this Democratic White House is in serious trouble.

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